Non alcoholic pairing recommendations?

[DeeBeezy]

Been drinking way too much recently! After a huge whisky event Sunday night in London I’ve decided to go on a short alcohol detox and see how it affects my performance in the gym. 
 

Please suggest tasty alternatives (yes I’ve seen the FOHrensics video from a few years back)

[MrBirdman]

Black tea is my absolute favorite pairing, even above any alcoholic drinks, at least from a taste perspective. 

[ender.lmm]

Tea (chamomile, black, sweet if you like it, etc.)
Black coffee (or cubanitos)
Diet soda
Sparkling water

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[LordAnubis]

Water with slices of lemon for me. I actually don’t pair my cigars with a drink these days. Don’t know why I moved away from sips between puffs. 

[Arabian]

Dr Pepper 

[Ford2112]

Sparkling apple cider, mixed with seltzer water.

Coffee, with or without cream. I am currently drinking Yirgacheffe and Sulawesi. Cold brew is great on a hot day!

Iced tea. Arnold Palmer.  

Any kind of sparkling water. I like lime. Tonic water and lime works too.

I quit drinking booze 30 years ago. Turns out there are lots of N/A beverages to choose from!

[nKostyan]

Any fruit juice that is not acidic without pulp. Restored is better than fresh. There have been successful experiments with orange juice here, but I'm skeptical about it because of the acidity.

[yuppie]

Coca Cola, Root Beer, Topo Chico, Coffee!

[Havanaaddict]

Iced tea

[JohnS]

That FOHrensics video famously concluded that Orange Juice is a good choice to compliment the smoking of a cigar.

Try it. It works!

[teamrandr]

Kombucha

[Habanoschris]

I'll do coffee sometimes when lucky enough to enjoy an am cigar.  

I know some others who have a preference for something sparkling/carbonated particularly Coca Cola ... supposed to help cleanse palette & aid in getting the most flavor from a cigar according to them. 

[Montezüma]

15 hours ago, MrBirdman said:

Black tea is my absolute favorite pairing, even above any alcoholic drinks, at least from a taste perspective. 

Jasmine is just better in almost every way but sometimes I do seek more intensity and go black tea or Turkish.

11 hours ago, Ford2112 said:

Coffee, with or without cream. I am currently drinking Yirgacheffe and Sulawesi. Cold brew is great on a hot day!

Nice, coffee is great but Sulawesi is usually Toraja and its quite acidic for me. Sumatra is my favourite, Mandheling especially. Yirgacheffe is amazing.

[Chibearsv]

My preferred selections in order.  

1. Fresca - Wonderful with a cigar - there really is something about citrus and cigars.
2. Unsweetened Black Tea - hot or iced - Wonderful with a cigar
3. Water - Kinda boring but it works
4. Arnold Palmer - Wonderful with some cigars - Too sweet for some cigars

 

 

[BrightonCorgi]

Water for me.

[Ford2112]

4 hours ago, Montezüma said:

Nice, coffee is great but Sulawesi is usually Toraja and its quite acidic for me. Sumatra is my favourite, Mandheling especially. Yirgacheffe is amazing.

My local coffee roaster is pretty amazing at getting the most out of his single origin beans. I don't smoke sissy cigars with my coffee its usually a part short or a principle or lately chicos. The sulawesi just came in so I am still on my latest batch of Ethiopian. So good!

[VeguerosMAN]

Black Coffee, or espresso.

[jhalischuk]

Espresso or root beer 

[Wlu1988]

I have really been enjoying cream soda (with cane sugar) for my pairings. 

[Kaptain Karl]

Grapefruit and Blood Orange Tangerine Spindrift. They've been my cocktails the past 18 months with little to zero drinking (went 10 months no booze...new record for me! Hopefully one I won't have to repeat due to health reasons) 

Also-don't replace alcohol with sugar...as momma says about sugar.  

 

[Lucas Buck]

Sparkling water

Espresso

Americano

NA Beer

[Habanoschris]

This is working nicely today👌😚

[yuppie]

5 hours ago, Habanoschris said:

This is working nicely today👌😚

I really need to locate some of these Montecarlos.

[Jimmy2]

Water

[Goldeneye]

On 5/26/2025 at 1:00 AM, Habanoschris said:

This is working nicely today👌😚

Completely agree with this NA drink, really hits the spot!